Ashimmer

1875, Charles F. Deems, “Relations of the University to Religion” in Dedication and Inauguration of the Vanderbilt University, Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, p. 65, […] each great wing is like an unmeasured milky-way, ashimmer with the mystic splendor of all stars.

The sun had set the peak of Olympus all ashimmer.

The solitary vessel was the only moving thing on the sea that morning when the east turned gray and the black water came ashimmer with silver light.

resplendent, living oysters, ashimmer on their silvery shells, their pewter plate